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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Gadgets are basically devices like a watch, a pair of fancy headphones or a small interesting tool that makes our life easier and more fun. Some of us are so much interested in gadgets that they take home few trendy gadgets as soon as they hit the store shelves. We are even hooked to older gadgets till date. People love to own and show off the latest popular gadgets using the latest technologies. Expensive pair of noise cancelling headphones can be seen used by many in flights. We even carry our favourite musics in portable music centres wherever we go. Gadgets have introduced a sense of fun even at work. Our electronic gadgets article library will help you find out the truth behind gadgets. One can learn how a microphone is different from another, the reasons why a metal detector detects coins underground or what a person feels when shot by a stun gun. We can even explore how the massage chair works to give people a proper rub. Today even doctors conduct operations to patients sitting mile s away. All these are possible because of new inventions in our gadget world.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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Rumors of an upcoming price hike for Asus products are unsubstantiated and appear unlikely. Australian publication ARN reported Tuesday that the Taiwanese manufacturer announced 20-percent price increases for all its existing and upcoming notebooks and Eee products beginning March. However,... Rumors of an upcoming price hike for Asus products are unsubstantiated and appear unlikely. Australian publication ARN reported Tuesday that the Taiwanese manufacturer announced 20-percent price increases for all its existing and upcoming notebooks and Eee products beginning March. However, the publication did not cite a source or an official statement from Asus. Also, Asus Germany has denied such claims and Asus USA said it is unaware of any price increases. ARN's report also cited the economic downturn as a reason for increased component costs to explain Asus's price hike. However, if that were true, Asus's competitors would be forced to raise prices as well. A spokesman for Multi-Star International, a netbook manufacturer also based in Taiwan, told Wired.com it has no plans for price increases. Asus USA told Wired.com it will contact Asus Taiwan for clarification. We'll post an update once we hear back. Asus hikes prices on all notebooks and Eee products [ARN] Photo: Brian X. Chen/Wired.com Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Friday, February 13, 2009
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LAS VEGAS -- Asus's latest 12.1-inch notebook is special not only because a cow died for it. More interesting for gadget geeks, the notebook can hold a solid state drive over half a terabyte large. Lined with brown leather, the... LAS VEGAS -- Asus's latest 12.1-inch notebook is special not only because a cow died for it. More interesting for gadget geeks, the notebook can hold a solid state drive over half a terabyte large. Lined with brown leather, the S121 is part of Asus's high-end line of 12.1-inch notebooks. The notebook, powered by a 1.3GHz Atom processor, normally ships with a hard disk drive, but Asus offers a 512GB SSD as an optional upgrade. That's pretty damn huge for solid state. Just a year ago, the industry was barely breaking double digits in terms of gigabyte capacity for solid state drives. The advantage of solid state is there are no moving parts, which thus makes these drives less fragile and more quiet. Solid state ain't cheap, though. Taking Apple's MacBook Air, for example -- upgrading from a 120GB hard disk drive to a 128GB solid state drive costs an additional $500. Asus's S101 starts at $1,650 with the default configuration. The company didn't have a price yet for the SSD option, but I'd estimate you'd have to pay at least an extra $700. The S101 ships end of January. See Also: SanDisk's Solid State Drives Make Laptops Better, Faster, Stronger ... Intel Shrinks Solid State Drive for Mini Notebooks Photo: Brian X. Chen/Wired.com Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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LEDs are kind of like the integrated circuit of the flashlight world -- they are so tiny that they can be squeezed into just about anything -- you no longer need to worry about big incandescent bulbs or D-Cell batteries.... LEDs are kind of like the integrated circuit of the flashlight world -- they are so tiny that they can be squeezed into just about anything -- you no longer need to worry about big incandescent bulbs or D-Cell batteries. The downside is that this kind of thinking leads us to all kinds of badly designed junk (I'm looking at you, USB thumb drives). Fortunately, the folks at Sahalie are hawking a very useful LED lamp, a tiny glowing light built into a cord lock, the cord clamps found on jackets and bags of all kinds. The name you can probably guess. It's called the Cord Lock Light. The little $10 widget hangs from your coat doing the exact same clothes-fastening job that a regular dumb clamp would do. But when you need to read a map, or find a keyhole, or dig your iPod from the bottom of your bag, it's there for you. It's even water resistant, for use in a bar. The obvious next step for this tech is the Fly Zipper LED, for safely aiming streams whilst seeking relief in darkened alleyways on those long, long walks back from the pub. Product page [Sahalie via Oh Gizmo!] Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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The Sakshat computer was supposed to be a $10 laptop, developed by engineering graduate students in India. Turns out it's neither $10 nor a laptop -- in fact, it's a $30 hard drive, with no keyboard or display. What good... The Sakshat computer was supposed to be a $10 laptop, developed by engineering graduate students in India. Turns out it's neither $10 nor a laptop -- in fact, it's a $30 hard drive, with no keyboard or display. What good is that? In this week's podcast, the Gadget Lab crew discusses this crushing disappointment -- along with another disappointment, Sony's overpriced Vaio P series Lifestyle PC. Plus: Garmin teams up with Asus to try and bring its long-awaited nuvifone to fruition, and we review the Theatre HD Player from Kodak. In this week's episode: Dylan Tweney, Priya Ganapati, Danny Dumas and Brian Chen, with audio engineering by Fernando Cardoso. If the embedded player above doesn't work, you can download the Gadget Lab podcast #61 MP3. Use iTunes? Subscribe to the Gadget Lab Audio Podcast in iTunes. Do it now! Like video? Aim your browser at the Gadget Lab Video Podcast — available on iTunes and right here on the Gadget Lab blog. Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Those of you waiting for Apple to fix Mobile Me, forget it -- Google has stepped up to fill the gap. Apple's "cloud computing" service got off to a bad start last year and never really recovered. IPhone users who... Those of you waiting for Apple to fix Mobile Me, forget it -- Google has stepped up to fill the gap. Apple's "cloud computing" service got off to a bad start last year and never really recovered. IPhone users who hoped the service would push contact, calendar and email updates to their device found that switching on Mobile Me did little more than drain their battery quickly. Enter Google. The search giant has now released a beta contact and calendar sync service for the iPhone, the Blackberry, the Windows Mobile, the S60 and various flavors of Nokia and Sony Ericsson non-smart phones. This obviously beats out the Apple version which only works with the iPhone. Google Mobile Sync will push and pull any changes to contacts or calendars over the air. On the iPhone these occupy the regular calendar and address book applications, meaning that things will work just as they normally do. It's all done via an Exchange server at Google's end, which means that things should actually function properly. Add to this Google Calendar's recent move offline for Google Apps users and you start to see that this is actually a great alternative to the Apple version. And most important of all, those icons are way cute. I'm in the middle of setting things up. If you hear nothing from me, assume that it went well. If things break, there will be a rant immediately following these words. Product page [Google] Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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LAS VEGAS -- USB hard drives are getting fatter with Toshiba announcing at CES 2009 its 500GB external drive. And that kind of storage means consumers will want to access from anywhere the music, photos and other data from those... LAS VEGAS -- USB hard drives are getting fatter with Toshiba announcing at CES 2009 its 500GB external drive. And that kind of storage means consumers will want to access from anywhere the music, photos and other data from those drives. The newly launched Pogoplug has created a small box that connects external hard drives to the Internet making all the data on it instantly shareable and accessible. Users simply plug turn the Pogoplug on, connect the Ethernet cable that comes with it to their home network router and attach it to an external hard drive. That's enough to bring the Pogoplug alive and the data on the external drive online. Users at home don't have to go through the Pogoplug to access their data. Pogoplug has an open API so there's already and iPhone app that interfaces with Pogoplug available. The best part? It's priced right at $100, with an introductory pricing at $80. Product Page [Pogoplug] Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Apple might be planning to create a premium game section in its iPhone App Store. Game blog PocketGamer.biz claims receiving a tip from anonymous sources, who said Apple will be introducing a new section to its App Store, where it... Apple might be planning to create a premium game section in its iPhone App Store. Game blog PocketGamer.biz claims receiving a tip from anonymous sources, who said Apple will be introducing a new section to its App Store, where it will sell $20 games. Typically games in the App Store cost no more than $10; many are even free. Though there's very little to substantiate PocketGamer's rumor, it's a highly valid one: Apple recently touted the iPhone as a serious gaming console, calling it "the future of gameplay." The idea of more complex, premium games in the App Store corroborates with Wired.com's analysis that the next-generation iPhone will be beefed up for serious gaming. Rumour: Apple planning $19.99 games section on App Store [PocketGamer.biz] See Also: iPhone Firmware Reveals Next Gen-Model Is in Testing Onyx Turns iPhone Into Web 2.0-Savvy Gaming Device iPhone Teases With Game Possibilities Why iPhone Games Will Rule Gamers Eye the iPhone, as SDK Approaches Photo: JasonEscapist/Flickr Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Sony's hottest new netbook appears to be showing more love to Japan than the states. In the United States, Sony launched the VAIO Series P Lifestyle PC — an 8 inch notebook that weighs 1.5 pounds — at the Consumer... Sony's hottest new netbook appears to be showing more love to Japan than the states. In the United States, Sony launched the VAIO Series P Lifestyle PC — an 8 inch notebook that weighs 1.5 pounds — at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. At the convention, Sony said the Lifestyle would be shipping with a 1.33GHz Atom processor. However, Engadget spotted specifications in Sony's Japanese site that list two options for faster processor speeds for the Lifestyle — 1.6GHz and 1.83GHz. What gives? Are we getting those options here, too? Sony provided the following e-mail statement:We do not comment on future product roadmaps.... The P Series is the ideal companion PC, allowing users to take it with them anywhere and everywhere for the ultimate computing on-the-go experience. We wanted to make sure the balance between price and performance was fair and after rigorous testing the Intel 1.33Ghz processor seemed to be the ideal candidate.That's an odd response that conflicts with what Sony told me at CES, where a spokesman said the Lifestyle was powered with a 1.33GHz Atom to address heating issues. Then again, considering this is a puny 8-inch netbook, I can't imagine customers would care that much about whether they're getting a 1.83GHz or 1.33 GHz CPU. Still, options are always nice, right? Hey Sony, where's the 1.86GHz VAIO P for America? [Engadget]See Also: Just Why Isn't the Sony Vaio P a Netbook? Sony Launches 'World's Lightest' 8-Inch Notebook (Not a Netbook) Photo: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Monday, February 2, 2009
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LAS VEGAS -- USB hard drives are getting fatter with Toshiba announcing at CES 2009 its 500GB external drive. And that kind of storage means consumers will want to access from anywhere the music, photos and other data from those... LAS VEGAS -- USB hard drives are getting fatter with Toshiba announcing at CES 2009 its 500GB external drive. And that kind of storage means consumers will want to access from anywhere the music, photos and other data from those drives. The newly launched Pogoplug has created a small box that connects external hard drives to the Internet making all the data on it instantly shareable and accessible. Users simply plug turn the Pogoplug on, connect the Ethernet cable that comes with it to their home network router and attach it to an external hard drive. That's enough to bring the Pogoplug alive and the data on the external drive online. Users at home don't have to go through the Pogoplug to access their data. Pogoplug has an open API so there's already and iPhone app that interfaces with Pogoplug available. The best part? It's priced right at $100, with an introductory pricing at $80. Product Page [Pogoplug] Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm is available from Verizon for $200 with a mail-in rebate of $50. But how much does the phone actually cost to make? iSuppli, which often does a teardown analysis of popular smartphones, estimates costs of... Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm is available from Verizon for $200 with a mail-in rebate of $50. But how much does the phone actually cost to make? iSuppli, which often does a teardown analysis of popular smartphones, estimates costs of the components and assembly for the Storm is just about $203. At $35, the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor is the single most expensive component in the phone. Other iSuppli breakdown analysis have put a tag of $175 on the 3G iPhone 8GB version and $144 on the HTC T-Mobile G1 phone. To be sure, this bill-of-materials tag isn't an indication of the true cost of the phone sense since it does not include expenditure on software development, testing, marketing or distribution, all important items that contribute to the final price tag of the phone. Still RIM and Verizon are dialing in some happy numbers on the phone. RIM released the Storm in North America on Nov. 21. And despite some harsh reviews and criticism of the device, Verizon said it has sold one million units since the launch. [via Engadget] See also:Reviled by Reviewers, BlackBerry's Storm Rages On Photo:(T-FIZ/Flickr) Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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Jeffrey Stephenson, the sole proprietor of Slippery Skip, showed us his Ingraham Nano Case Mod -- a replica of the 1946 Stromberg Carlson radio, but with a few minor modifications to the front panel including the gas cap from a... Jeffrey Stephenson, the sole proprietor of Slippery Skip, showed us his Ingraham Nano Case Mod -- a replica of the 1946 Stromberg Carlson radio, but with a few minor modifications to the front panel including the gas cap from a vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle. It was a tricky project due to the exacting nature of some vintage radio buffs. "You have to be careful with vintage radio collectors," said Stephenson, "because they'll hunt you down if you don't get it right." To that end, he spent around 300 hours building every aspect of the Ingraham by hand, with no power tools. The $5,000 Ingraham is the first case mod to feature a 1.66 GHz VIA Nano processor, according to Stephenson, but that's not really the point. "I see it more as art than technology," he added, and he's right. The above photo just doesn't do justice to its sumptuous wood finish. Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Casio's new Exilim FC100 is all about the speed. The sleek brushed metal digicam can capture video at up to 1000 frames per second, full-sized, 9 megapixel stills at a ridiculous 30fps and it can even slow down time itself... Casio's new Exilim FC100 is all about the speed. The sleek brushed metal digicam can capture video at up to 1000 frames per second, full-sized, 9 megapixel stills at a ridiculous 30fps and it can even slow down time itself -- the camera has a mode which shows a slo-mo version of the real world on the LCD screen so you can pick the precise moment to fire the shutter. All this for $400. Available March. Press release [Casio] See Also: Casio Crams High-Speed Shooting into Tiny Camera Body Review: Casio EX-F1 Is a Speed-Demon Snapper Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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LAS VEGAS -- Multi-Star International, famous for its netbooks, is showcasing a new family of all-in-one desktops at the Consumer Electronics Show. Of the product line, the Wind NetOn AE2208 (above) is the top-of-the-line system -- and boy is it... LAS VEGAS -- Multi-Star International, famous for its netbooks, is showcasing a new family of all-in-one desktops at the Consumer Electronics Show. Of the product line, the Wind NetOn AE2208 (above) is the top-of-the-line system -- and boy is it ugly. The specifications are as follows: Display: 21.6-inch widescreen; up to 1920-by-1080 resolution (full HD); optional touchscreen CPU: 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 2GB The AE2208 starts at $800 and is expected to ship second quarter of 2009, according to MSI. In terms of specifications, it sounds like a pretty decent system that offers a cheap alternative to the iMac. But boy does MSI lose in the looks department. Computers shouldn't have nipples. See Also: MSI Introduces the 'NetTop': Low-Cost, All-in-One PC MSI to Showcase Low-Powered All-in-One Desktop, Netbooks at CES ... Photo: Brian X. Chen/Wired.com Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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